Looks like every episode is narrated by a different artist from the era. Last week was John Paul Young. This week it’s Wilbur Wilde.
I find it interesting that bad teeth, a monobrow or being a bogans didn’t prevent you from being a pop star in 1976. 
1977 narrated by Richard Clapton.
1978 narrated by Jane Clifton.
1979 narrated by Stephen Cummings.
That’s a shame … i was hoping each week was going to be a straight replay of an epoisde from that year as we saw it go to air back then, complete with all of Molly’s intros and Top 10 countdowns etc.
But they’ve done that every year on Rage over summer.
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The ones I recorded from Rage a couple of summers ago weren’t like that… I think they were just the clips with no intros from Molly or some of the other studio bits.
1980 narrated by James Rayne.
1981 narrated by Steve Kilbey from The Church.
1982 narrated by Shane Howard from Goanna.
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What an awesome era for music and the golden age for Countdown.
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Eleven should play some of those movies. I think they could find an audience like The Wog Boy and other Aussie movies they have screened recently.
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Narrated by :
1984 - Grace Knight
1985 - Kate Ceberano
1986 - Deb Conway
I was just about to post 1985. The Year of the Mullet. 
How do you know about 1986 already?
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Also
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I had to look up that Paul Stewart was from Painters and Dockers.
1987 was the last year of Countdown and the last year mullets were fashionable. 
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@Radiohead Hopefully you’ve noticed that rage has been showing classic episodes on Saturday nights on ABC and repeated on ABCME during the week these past couple of weeks. They continue through the rest of January.
Tonight they had:
COUNTDOWN May 11, 1980 (239: Bob Geldof - Boomtown Rats) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN November 23, 1980 (267: Ross Wilson - Mondo Rock) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN October 25, 1981 (307: Sharon O’Neill) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN August 29, 1982 (343: Annalise Morrow - The Numbers) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN October 2, 1983 (390: Marc Hunter - Dragon) (ABC)
Last week:
COUNTDOWN March 16, 1980 (231: Steve Gilpin - Mi-Sex) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN May 3, 1981 (283: Greedy Smith - Mental As Anything) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN July 11, 1982 (336: James Reyne - Australian Crawl) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN August 11, 1985 (474: Howard Jones) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN April 13, 1986 (504: Spencer and Billy - The Johnnys) (ABC)
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Thanks, yes the ones I saw a few months ago weren’t quite what I was hoping for, which was for the full original epiosdes exactly as aired in their entirety back in the 1980s.
Is that what these are?